In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...

Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings

This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches

How are things, Adolph? This is Brian, from NBC. Thanks for the interview. It will air in September if the network brings me back.

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.

Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat

Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.